Awards

Last month, Brown CS faculty member Michael Littman, Brown University’s Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, received one of his profession’s highest honors by being elected an Academy member. 

The award recognizes strong achievement from undergraduate researchers and provides $13,350 to enable them to continue their work over the summer.

For Erin, the complexity of the immune system is less a mystery than a puzzle waiting to be understood. Everest is driven by a simple question: How can machines better support people in high-pressure environments?

Her work explores how AI systems can reason directly in dynamic 3D environments rather than only through text, including methods that extend 4D capture with generative models.

The award will allow Chen to create a scientific framework that allows machines to learn directly from passive observations and active interactions with the physical environment.

This year’s event was held from April 10-11 and Brown CS student Eashan Iyer, who expects to concentrate in Mathematical Physics and Computer Science, was part of a cross-university team that placed second in the competition.

The AAAS has elected Brown CS PhD alum Danfeng (Daphne) Yao (now Professor of CS, Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. '56 Faculty Fellow, and CACI Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech) to the rank of Fellow.

Brown CS alum and Advisory Board member danah boyd has just received a Sloan Research Fellowship, recognizing her as one of the most promising scientific researchers working today, part of the next generation of U.S. and Canadian scientific leaders.

Less than a year after a receiving one of the highest honors in the field of virtual reality, Brown CS alum and former adjunct research faculty member and visiting scholar Joseph J. Laviola Jr. (now Charles N. Millican Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida) has been recognized again.

The event featured participation from more than 400 university students from across the country and 1,000 students from 76 different countries participating virtually. Brown CS concentrators on three separate teams came home with awards.